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...spitting the word “fuck” several dozen times (this was, no doubt, to show she was no prude). A major theme of the evening: Pornography has invaded our culture to such an extent that even a woman’s behavior is altered by it. Porn causes a woman to feel immense pressure to conform to an unattainable standard of beauty and sex appeal. Dines blames everything from hard-core pornography to mainstream magazine covers of models who are “blonde, female, and white…with a ‘fuck me?...
...Dines’ shock-and-awe tactics made for an entertaining two hours, but she is hardly a beacon of insight on the subject of porn and culture. Hers is the wearying rhetoric of the worst sort of feminism, a strange collision of puritanical morality and radical politics. She’s right that American society is increasingly sexualized (though we remain much more publicly chaste than many other Westernized countries), but to attribute a loosening of female sexual mores to porn is illogical, sexist, and degrading. For those who ascribe to Dines’ school of thought, a woman...
...fuck me’ look” might mean exactly what it seems—that a woman just wants to have sex. While a society devoid of meaningful sex would be troubling, Dines dares to deny women agency to make that choice. Some porn may be gross, but it has not caused a cultural pandemic. On the contrary, one could argue that it is the loosening of sexual mores—female and male—that has given way to the growth of the pornography industry...
...degree that Dines managed to be at all compelling, it was in her appeal to the victimization of women who star in porn. Too many male consumers of pornography, she suggested, fail to realize they are “jerking off to someone else’s misery.” To drive this message home, she presented a photo of a woman’s face covered in semen. Yet, like her other assertions, this is not grounded in fact. American women are not sold into pornography as slaves—though engaging in porn may come...
...individuals and corporations to take part in commerce. Indeed, there is a type of pornography that is disturbing to view—efforts to prevent young children from viewing this, for instance, is a worthy goal. Beyond that, however, one does best to pursue a libertarian approach to porn...